Notification noise won't go away

[Donbot]

On my Windows 10 PC I'm getting a notification sound roughly every 15 minutes.

I know explaining a sound through text may not be helpful, but it is two notes going 'bluh bluh'.

It isn't a Windows sound as I have been through them all and none are the same, plus they are turned off anyway. I'm not receiving any messages or notifications through any application.

It only started happening after I bought Microsoft gamepass, but I think that is probably a coincidence. It's really starting to piss me off that I can't find what it is. I'm starting to wonder if it might be some sort of annoying virus.

[Mr Happy]

Do they increase in pitch or decrease? as in lo-hi or hi-lo?

Going by what you describe - it could be the device connected / device disconnected noise. Lo-Hi is connected, hi-lo is disconnected. Do you have any dodgy usb cables (charging a phone or something like that) connected to the PC?

[sociopath]

Mine does similar if an external drive is iffy and keeps connecting/disconnecting.

Took me ages to track it down.

[h0b0]

I recently had a similar issues with unwanted noises. In the end I realised it was the 2 auction sites I had open. When a bid was placed it made a noise..

[Donbot]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I noticed that Microsoft Edge had a load of background processes running, which I thought was strange as I don't use it. I've cancelled all the tasks and saw that it had modified itself around the same time the noises started. It also decided it wanted to start itself at start up. It's a shame it won't let me fully uninstall it.

Anyway the noise seems to have stopped, so hopefully that's fixed it.

[Digger]

Is there an open app in the systray that is receiving notifications?

I sometimes forget I have Discord in the systray & it bongs whenever there is a new post notification - always confuses me for a few minutes!